Comment on Localizing English error messages makes it slightly harder to search for solutions online.

rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• dustyData@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Let’s not kid ourselves. Most localization in software is trash because technocrats refuse to pay actual translators. Part of the reason I have involved myself in FOSS localization efforts is because it is extremely obvious it is either being done by amateurs who don’t speak the language, or using machine translation (AI or otherwise) that never gets the context right. Most people doing quality localization are scattered thin and the only ones paying good money for quality localization (FAAMG or whatever they call themselves now) are now laying off massive amounts of workers to replace them with poorly implemented AI.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I suppose I’m relatively spoiled as a German.

    FAAMG or whatever they call themselves now) are now laying off massive amounts of workers to replace them with poorly implemented AI.

    I do remember setting my webbrowser to English to avoid YouTube’s absurd automatic title translations, and that was before the LLM hype …

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  • Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Or the software is so shitty that you cannot get translations correct because they assumed every language in the world works like English.

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• YICHM@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A water multiplexer (faucet) and a water demultiplexer (showerhead).

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• MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  A good rule of thumb is to set each machine/website to its original language (English in most cases). Because when you set your devices to english then sites and apps will also try to change to english and that usually sucks for government websites for example.

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• Strider@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Also gaming, mmorpg, I concur

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh yeah. It sucks trying to search for tips, solutions etc. when you only know the localized terms, and it’s rare that help resources in different languages are even somewhat useful.

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